The Haunted Series Omnibus

Contains the first three books in the best-selling The Haunted Series:
Shallow Graves,
The Seventh Ward, and
Seaforth Prison.

4 out of 5 stars

INTERESTING STORY, BUT...

By
K. V.
on
06-19-17

Panic

Wildfire Chronicles, Book 1

By:
K.R. Griffiths

Narrated by:
Craig Beck

Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
64

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
55

Story

4 out of 5 stars
56

Michael Evans is only in rural St. Davids to maintain a low profile after his time spent as a city cop ended in disaster. The town is perfect for him: isolated. A tiny population. Virtually no crime. Until the night the strange canisters fall from the sky and the town priest starts killing people with his teeth. To Michael, the bloodbath looks like a murder case that the quiet town's two police officers can't possibly handle.

4 out of 5 stars

I would have given it 5 stars, but.....

By
ANGIE
on
01-28-16

The Uninvited

By:
Mike Evans

Narrated by:
S.W. Salzman

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
53

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
47

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
48

The best part about a book, is that moment you can put it down, and say at least that can't happen in real life, until now.
The Uninvited will leave you checking your doors, locking your windows and skipping the weekend camping trip. Meet the stranger, a killer who is unbiased about who it chooses to be the victim, and never tires of the killing. If Dexter and Leatherface had a baby,
The Uninvited would be their offspring.

5 out of 5 stars

A must listen for any Horror /slasher fan

By
ST
on
07-12-16

After The Ending

The Ending Series, #1

By:
Lindsey Fairleigh,
Lindsey Pogue

Narrated by:
Natalie Duke

Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
399

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
367

Story

4 out of 5 stars
364

When people started getting sick, they thought it was just the flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family ...they're all gone now. I got sick too. I should have died with them-with the rest of the world-but I didn't. I thought witnessing the human population almost disappear off the face of the earth was the craziest thing I'd ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani O'Connor, I'm twenty-six-years-old, and I survived the ending.

2 out of 5 stars

Like watching the Orange County Housewifes.

By
Lauren
on
07-16-15

Berkley Street

Berkley Street Series, Book 1

By:
Ron Ripley

Narrated by:
Thom Bowers

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
472

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
426

Story

4 out of 5 stars
426

Shane Ryan returns to Nashua and the childhood memories that drove him to join the Marines. After a prolonged legal battle with his aunt and uncle, Shane has possession of the family home where his parents disappeared over 20 years ago. The house, a monstrous castle filled with ghosts and secrets, is more alive than its inhabitants.

5 out of 5 stars

Highly entertaining!!

By
tcrow510
on
12-19-16

Her Last Day

Jessie Cole, Book 1

By:
T.R. Ragan

Narrated by:
Kate Rudd

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,590

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,430

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,419

Ten years ago, PI Jessie Cole and reporter Ben Morrison each suffered a tragedy that changed their lives - and now these two strangers are about to share a nightmare. For Jessie, who makes her living finding missing persons, no case has consumed her more than the disappearance of her younger sister, Sophie. But left alone to raise Sophie's daughter, she realizes that solving the case has become an unhealthy obsession.

2 out of 5 stars

What the?

By
Vlad E.
on
04-21-18

The Haunted Series Omnibus

The Haunted Series Collection, Book 1

By:
Patrick Logan

Narrated by:
Michael Pauley

Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
65

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
62

Story

4 out of 5 stars
61

Contains the first three books in the best-selling The Haunted Series:
Shallow Graves,
The Seventh Ward, and
Seaforth Prison.

4 out of 5 stars

INTERESTING STORY, BUT...

By
K. V.
on
06-19-17

Panic

Wildfire Chronicles, Book 1

By:
K.R. Griffiths

Narrated by:
Craig Beck

Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
64

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
55

Story

4 out of 5 stars
56

Michael Evans is only in rural St. Davids to maintain a low profile after his time spent as a city cop ended in disaster. The town is perfect for him: isolated. A tiny population. Virtually no crime. Until the night the strange canisters fall from the sky and the town priest starts killing people with his teeth. To Michael, the bloodbath looks like a murder case that the quiet town's two police officers can't possibly handle.

4 out of 5 stars

I would have given it 5 stars, but.....

By
ANGIE
on
01-28-16

The Uninvited

By:
Mike Evans

Narrated by:
S.W. Salzman

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
53

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
47

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
48

The best part about a book, is that moment you can put it down, and say at least that can't happen in real life, until now.
The Uninvited will leave you checking your doors, locking your windows and skipping the weekend camping trip. Meet the stranger, a killer who is unbiased about who it chooses to be the victim, and never tires of the killing. If Dexter and Leatherface had a baby,
The Uninvited would be their offspring.

5 out of 5 stars

A must listen for any Horror /slasher fan

By
ST
on
07-12-16

After The Ending

The Ending Series, #1

By:
Lindsey Fairleigh,
Lindsey Pogue

Narrated by:
Natalie Duke

Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
399

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
367

Story

4 out of 5 stars
364

When people started getting sick, they thought it was just the flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family ...they're all gone now. I got sick too. I should have died with them-with the rest of the world-but I didn't. I thought witnessing the human population almost disappear off the face of the earth was the craziest thing I'd ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani O'Connor, I'm twenty-six-years-old, and I survived the ending.

2 out of 5 stars

Like watching the Orange County Housewifes.

By
Lauren
on
07-16-15

Berkley Street

Berkley Street Series, Book 1

By:
Ron Ripley

Narrated by:
Thom Bowers

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
472

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
426

Story

4 out of 5 stars
426

Shane Ryan returns to Nashua and the childhood memories that drove him to join the Marines. After a prolonged legal battle with his aunt and uncle, Shane has possession of the family home where his parents disappeared over 20 years ago. The house, a monstrous castle filled with ghosts and secrets, is more alive than its inhabitants.

5 out of 5 stars

Highly entertaining!!

By
tcrow510
on
12-19-16

Her Last Day

Jessie Cole, Book 1

By:
T.R. Ragan

Narrated by:
Kate Rudd

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,590

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,430

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,419

Ten years ago, PI Jessie Cole and reporter Ben Morrison each suffered a tragedy that changed their lives - and now these two strangers are about to share a nightmare. For Jessie, who makes her living finding missing persons, no case has consumed her more than the disappearance of her younger sister, Sophie. But left alone to raise Sophie's daughter, she realizes that solving the case has become an unhealthy obsession.

2 out of 5 stars

What the?

By
Vlad E.
on
04-21-18

Kill Someone

By:
Luke Smitherd

Narrated by:
Matt Addis

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
263

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
246

Story

4 out of 5 stars
246

From the author of the international best seller The Stone Man, short-listed for Audible UK's Book of the Year Award 2015. Here are the rules. Method: you can't use a gun. You can't use explosives. You can't use poison. It has to be up close and personal. You don't have to worry about leaving evidence; that will be taken care of. Victim: no one suicidal. No one over the age of 65. No one with a terminal illness. Choose your method. Choose your victim.

5 out of 5 stars

The Good of the Many is More Important...Or is it?

By
JoanneG
on
12-06-16

The Home

By:
Scott Nicholson

Narrated by:
Daniel Dorse

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
21

Performance

3 out of 5 stars
17

Story

4 out of 5 stars
17

When 12-year-old Freeman Mills arrives at Wendover, a group home for troubled children, it's a chance for a fresh start. But second chances aren't easy for Freeman, the victim of painful childhood experiments that gave him the ability to read other people's minds. Little does Freeman know that his transfer was made at the request of Dr. Richard Kracowski, whose research into the brain's electrical properties is revealing new powers of the human mind.

3 out of 5 stars

A chilling read.

By
Natalie @ ABookLoversLife
on
09-10-15

Skin

Insatiable Series, Book 1

By:
Patrick Logan

Narrated by:
Michael Pauley

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
163

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
148

Story

4 out of 5 stars
148

Tucked away in northeastern Vermont, picturesque Askergan County is the perfect place for a winter vacation - for the lucky few who know about it. Askergan is so peaceful, crime so nonexistent, that they don't even have a full-time police force, just a Sheriff and two deputies who spend most of their time dishing out parking tickets and breaking up the occasional bar fight. But that was before the storm.

5 out of 5 stars

Will be haunted by that voice for days

By
Julie Ann Sanchez
on
10-11-16

And Then She Was Gone

By:
Christopher Greyson

Narrated by:
Andrew Tell

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
478

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
407

Story

4 out of 5 stars
409

Stacy Shaw has her whole life ahead of her. New job, new house, and now a baby on the way - everything she's ever hoped for is finally coming true. But on a warm summer night on the way home from work, she vanishes. The police race to find her, but the clues don't add up. Conflicting facts emerge as her story twists and turns, sending the trail spiraling in all directions.

5 out of 5 stars

Looking forward to more

By
Health Coach
on
03-24-17

Hide and Seek

By:
P.S. Brown

Narrated by:
Mark Capell

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
63

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
54

Story

4 out of 5 stars
54

Peter Stevenson reluctantly returns to his home-town for the first time in 20 years to attend the funeral of a friend who seemingly committed suicide. The somber occasion reunites him with the surviving members of his gang of childhood friends, and they spend the evening reminiscing their teenage days. Peter wakes up the next day stranded in a cabin in the woods feeling like he was drugged and with no recollection of the night before.

5 out of 5 stars

Riveting

By
lori parry
on
02-18-15

Dweller

By:
Jeff Strand

Narrated by:
Scott Thomas

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
65

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
61

Story

4 out of 5 stars
62

When Toby Floren was eight years old, he discovered a monster living in the woods behind his house. A ghastly, frightening creature with claws, fangs, and a taste for human flesh. As he ran out of the forest, screaming, Toby felt that he'd been lucky to escape with his life. Years later, Toby finds comfort with the creature. It's his own special secret - something that nobody else in the world knows about. Somebody to talk to. Somebody to confide in.

5 out of 5 stars

I can't even...

By
Natalie @ ABookLoversLife
on
01-16-17

Long Claws

By:
Steve Peek

Narrated by:
Joseph B. Kearns

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
3

Performance

1.5 out of 5 stars
3

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
3

The clan activates an Indian mound deep in southern forests and enters our world - hungry for defenseless prey. Torrential rains and washed out bridges force a runaway teen, an old dowser, and a Cherokee healer to face the horrors of the clan's merciless onslaught. The long claws' skill, speed, strength, and intelligence make them powerful predators unlike anything in human history.

3 out of 5 stars

Story: Fine - Performance: Horrible

By
Richard S. Swol
on
05-15-17

The Haunting of Ashburn House

By:
Darcy Coates

Narrated by:
Eva Kaminsky

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
866

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
802

Story

4 out of 5 stars
799

There's something wrong with Ashburn House. The ancient building has been the subject of rumours for close to a century. Its owner, Edith, refused to let guests inside and rarely visited the nearby town. Following Edith's death, her sole surviving relative, Adrienne, inherits the property. Adrienne's only possessions are a suitcase of luggage, 20 dollars, and her pet cat. Ashburn House is a lifeline she can't afford to refuse. Adrienne doesn't believe in ghosts, but it's hard to ignore the unease that grows as she explores her new home.

2 out of 5 stars

Spoilers ahead

By
Lila Donovan
on
05-29-17

Seed

By:
Ania Ahlborn

Narrated by:
Eric G. Dove

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
527

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
469

Story

4 out of 5 stars
473

With nothing but the clothes on his back - and something horrific snapping at his heels - Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. Now, years later, the bright new future he’s built suddenly turns pitch black, as something fiendishly familiar looms dead ahead. Surviving a violent car crash seems like a miracle for Jack’s family, but Jack knows there’s nothing divine about it.

3 out of 5 stars

THE DIRTY SOUTH

By
Jim "The Impatient"
on
12-28-16

The Punished

By:
Peter Meredith

Narrated by:
Jeffrey Kyle Carpenter

Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
97

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
90

Story

4 out of 5 stars
89

Some have been in the cursed house for years, their minds warped into insanity by the fear and pain. Curt is new and can't understand why no one speaks and why the only sounds come from the night. He wonders what it is that comes out of the basement when the sun goes down.

5 out of 5 stars

Bleeping Wow!!

By
Joseph
on
01-21-16

After the Cure

By:
Deirdre Gould

Narrated by:
Miles Taber

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
98

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
89

Story

4 out of 5 stars
89

Eight years ago, the December Plague swept through the human population of Earth. The infected were driven mad by the disease, becoming violent and cannibalistic, killing even those closest to them without hesitation. Six years ago, the tiny surviving community of immune humans found a cure, and the infected began to wake up and realize what they'd done...and what had been done to them.

1 out of 5 stars

Insipid

By
cristina
on
05-18-16

The Apocalypse: The Undead World Novel 1 (Volume 1)

By:
Peter Meredith

Narrated by:
Basil Sands

Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,552

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,440

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,441

Greed, terrorism, and simple bad luck conspire to bring mankind to its knees as a viral infection spreads out of control, reducing those infected to undead horrors that feed upon the rest. It's a time of misery and death for most, however there are some who are lucky, some who are fast, and some who are just too damned tough to go down without a fight. This is their story.

5 out of 5 stars

ATE HIS FACE

By
Jim "The Impatient"
on
01-19-16

Publisher's Summary

Clive Barrett is a fast learner. His first kills were amateurish, but Clive knows that practice makes perfect. Soon, he expects to be one of the most notorious serial killers in the UK. He expects to be number one.

There is just one problem: one of Clive's victims simply won't stay dead.

It turns out that one of Clive's early kills wasn't just sloppy; it wasn't a kill at all. Now, improving his craft might just be the least of Clive's worries, because the woman he thought he'd murdered knows his name. She knows where he lives.

The characterization killed it. Pun intended.

Any additional comments?

I tried getting into this book, I really did. It sounded interesting and I REALLY wanted to like it. There was just too much wrong with the characterizations that I just couldn't identify with it, thus the enjoyment was sucked right out of it (for me).

The story premise was good. However, all the issues I have with the book wrap around to the adage, "Write what you know." The author's characterization of the female characters was not good (it was off-base and undeveloped), as was the characterization of the protagonist. When the book's POV was in that of the female characters, I seriously wanted to shake the author, asking if he'd ever met a woman before. It was weird: I didn't get a hint of misogyny, just the overall feeling that the author couldn't identify, not even one iota, with a woman. I almost gave him a pass for the protagonist, but as I got deeper into the story and was thinking about it, I just couldn't. How many authors have done volumes of research to add to their storyline, settings, characters, etc.? Yes, yes - it's fiction, but there needs to be some plausibility in order for the reader to identify with the book (and there is SO MUCH research, so many books, about serial killers that helpful facts and guidelines would have been relatively easy to compile).

Now, the rating... 2 vs. 1 star. Because the author used correct connotation and grammar and did have a good story concept, I rated it 2 as opposed to 1 star.